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Assistant by Malamud Professor Bernard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes ...Show more
Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
William Dublin is middle-aged, a distinguished biographer seeking increased accomplishment and the key to his inner feelings. His marriage is stable if unexciting, and he lives comfortably with his wife in Vermont. Then his imagination is caught by Fanny, a young girl of twenty-three, and he is thrown i ...Show more
Pictures Of Fidelman by Bernard Malamud
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Arthur Fidelman, Bronx-born and raised, is a self-confessed failure as a painter. When he goes to Italy to prepare a critical study of Giotto, a picaresque tale of comedy and adventure ensues.
THE FIXER by MALAMUD BERNARD
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 during a perio ...Show more
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Frank Alpine, a drifter fleeing from his past, runs straight into struggling Brooklyn grocer Morris Bober. Seeing a chance to atone for past sins, Frank becomes Bober's assistant and keeps shop when the owner takes ill. But it is Bober's daughter, Helen, who gives Frank a real reason to stay around, ev ...Show more
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this collection of stories Malamud displays his great gifts as a writer - his humour, his profound concern for all human life and his ability to transmute common things and people into a strange poetry. Many of his characters are Jewish (the title story, for example, is about a rabbinical student try ...Show more
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an immense natural gift for playing baseball. He could become one of the great ones of the game, a player unmatched in his time - a hero. But his first hard-won big chance ends violently, at the hands of a crazy girl, and then it is years before he ...Show more
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